Could Shutting Down the CFPB Severely Dent Small Businesses’ Access to Capital?
Shuttering the agency would be a death knell to the CFPB’s small-business data collection rule, which is meant to enforce equality in lending to the nation’s entrepreneurs.
Anger, chaos and confusion take hold as federal workers face mass layoffs. Follow live updates.
Many of those impacted say they had already accepted the administration’s deferred resignation offer, under which they were ...
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CFPB’s 1,700 employees told to ‘not perform any work’ as Obama-era agency becomes latest Trump target
WASHINGTON — The nearly 1,700 employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) were told Monday not to come to the office or do any work — as the agency became the latest target of ...
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Vought cuts off CFPB funding, saying it’s not necessary to run the agency
Russell Vought, the acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is halting the flow of new funding to the agency and shutting down its headquarters, the latest threat to the CFPB’s ...
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The CFPB tells its workers to 'not perform any work tasks' this week while it shuts down its DC headquarters
On Sunday, employees at the CFPB received a two-sentence email from Adam Martinez, the agency's chief operating officer, telling DC employees to work remotely. "The DC Headquarters Building will ...
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Federal employees union files lawsuits over CFPB shutdown and DOGE access
The CFPB is an independent government agency established by Congress in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis to protect consumers from corporate fraud and scams. President Trump named Russell ...
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Warren: Reported effort to shutter CFPB ‘another scam’
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Monday slammed the Trump administration’s reported efforts to shutter the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) as “another scam.” “If you have a ...
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'CFPB RIP': Musk and Trump's plans to shrink an agency that cracks down on medical debt and overdraft fees are underway
"CFPB RIP," Musk wrote on X on Friday. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a federal agency designed to prevent another financial crisis and protect people from scams, has halted most of its ...
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Trump Vs. CFPB: Russ Vought Orders Consumer Financial Protection Bureau To Stop Work
Feb. 9The National Treasury Employees Union, which represents CFPB employees, sued Vought, asking a judge to stop him from halting the bureau’s work and alleging he granted staffers from Musk ...
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‘CFPB RIP’: Elon Musk is already descending on his next target
Musk’s team on Friday entered the headquarters of the CFPB, an agency that the billionaire Donald Trump adviser has personally targeted, according to three people familiar with their actions.
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Musk’s crew descends on CFPB with plan to shut it down
Three DOGE team membersChristopher Young, Nikhil Rajpal, and Gavin Kligerarrived at the CFPB’s Washington office, the CFPB employees union NTEU 335 said in a Friday statement. The move comes months ...